New vacancy here at Aviva for an Online Underwriter where you will be able to craft yourself a career and gain great insight into the world of Insurance Underwriting!

The successful applicant will be aligned to a portfolio of customers/brokers, to proactively develop the commercial book of business.

You will be responsible for underwriting profitable business whilst operating within agreed guidelines and authority levels.

Responsibilities

• Deliver excellent broker/customer experience and technical underwriting support in a fast paced multi demand channel environment

• Provide underwriting support to brokers/customers who cannot transact their business end to end online

• Provide the right solution for the broker/customer at the right time, through the life cycle of the relationship

• Develop an expertise where necessary to meet broker/ customer demand

• Making the right underwriting decisions, reflecting our strategy and the customer/broker value

Skills required

• Ability to work independently, within underwriting authority, conferring where appropriate more technical and complex risks to colleagues who can add value

• Understanding the purpose, measures of the system and other data, and uses them to improve things for the customer to eliminate waste

• Secures new business by pro-actively and continually prospecting new customers

What will you get for this role?

• Competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow!

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Ben Parker a call on 07833 239394 or send an email to ben.parker@aviva.com

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role